Brendan lives in the hills of western Massachusetts surrounded by family friends and forest. In his spare time he is a percussionist and amateur photographer.
October 8, 2015
Who am I? How do you answer that question? I’m a mother, a wife, a teacher, a scholar. And I’m also a psychedelic woman.
March 10, 2016
No offense to Nancy or the U$ government cocaine-smuggling rings that thrived under the regime of her anti-communist ideologue of a husband, but drugs are endemic to life.
April 15, 2016
I majored in physics at Princeton. I’m a lawyer who graduated from Georgetown Law. I clerked for a Federal Judge. And, of course, I had a positive, life-changing trip on LSD.
May 3, 2016
The decades-long “War on Drugs” has created a situation in which the use of psychedelics is a social justice issue.
May 17, 2016
The demonization of psychedelic culture is not a social justice issue, and using the language of social justice is damaging to those causes.
May 25, 2016
You can’t expect to get equal rights unless you push for them, and you can’t push for them without first standing up and being “out.”
May 31, 2016
During an earlier era of psychedelic research, the 1950s-70s, some scientists believed that in order to ethically administer psychedelics to others it was necessary to first experience them oneself.
June 2, 2016
Isn’t it just as valid and meaningful for psychedelics to be used for diversion, entertainment, relaxation, and adventure?
June 6, 2016
In the late 70's, about seven years after Rick Doblin decided to become a psychedelic therapist and researcher at age 18, he had this potent dream that confirmed his choice of work.
June 9, 2016
The risk of coming out as queer is grossly unequal to the risk of disclosing as a psychedelic user.